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Microsoft Phone 7 Sells 1.5 million units (Official Press Release)

Posted by Tom Schultz on December 21, 2010 None comments

Many people were worried about the sales numbers for the Windows Phone 7 platform. Some were approximating aroudn 500,000 units being sold since the platform’s release back on the 8th of November 2010.

A Microsoft press release that was published today where Achim Berg is quoted as saying
Another is phone manufacturer sales – phones being bought and stocked by mobile operators and retailers on their way to customers. We are pleased that phone manufacturers sold over 1.5 million phones in the first six weeks, which helps build customer momentum and retail presence.

Microsoft is quickly biting into the mobile market with it’s newly updated phone platform.

(Original Press Release)
http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/Features/2010/dec10/12-21AchimBergQA.mspx

Factory Reset Virgin Mobile Samsung Intercept

Posted by Tom Schultz on October 12, 2010 11 comments

I don’t know why but this was really hard to figure out for me.

Step 1:  Goto your home screen by clicking the little house.

Step 2:  Click on the menu button that’s to the left of the house button.

Step 3: Click on “Settings”.

Step 4: Click on “Privacy”.

Step 5: Click “Factory Reset”

This will remove all of your apps and google account information but it will NOT ERASE the microSD card data.

Hope this helps people, the only post that came up for me mentioned restarting the phone and holding the volume down button but that didn’t work for me.

I will be reviewing this phone soon! So far it’s awesome for the price!

On Android’s Market Share

Posted by Eric Shull on October 25, 2009 None comments

Ever since Android was announced by Google a while back, Linux geeks everywhere have been hoping it would take a chunk out of the iPhone market. Though Android hasn’t really taken off as expected, hopes have been renewed recently with projections that the mobile OS would outpace the iPhone in the next year or two, especially with an armada of new phones intending to run it out of the box.

Personally, I doubt that Android will really dent the iPhone market. That’s not to say I don’t think it won’t be popular, I just think it will cut into a different mobile OS: Windows Mobile. Android and the iPhone do not really compete in the same arenas. The iPhone is a high-performance device with some core (limited) functionality. Android, however, is more of an all-purpose OS, as demonstrated by the diversity of hardware it can run on. To date, the all-purpose mobile OS has been Windows Mobile. In fact, it’s so all-purpose that the mobile checkout devices used by sales reps in Apple Stores run Windows Mobile.

As Android takes off, I’m guessing that Windows Mobile’s days are numbered. I haven’t heard anything about it in some time, and media share sometimes counts for more than market share. After all, if you looked around, would you guess that only 1 in 10 people use a Mac?

Picture Mail for Sprint’s HTC Mogul(6800)

Posted by Tom Schultz on January 23, 2009 2 comments

At 5:01 PM EST today I recieved a text message from Sprint on my phone.

SPRINTFREEMSG: Picture Mail is now available for your device at http://softwarestore.sprint.com/wap under the Free/Demo section. Click Go to get it now.

This is great news!  This feature has been too long been missing from these “more powerful” Windows Mobile phones.

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